Would you concider someone like David Bohm or David Peat a guru of sorts?
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Abstract
An exploration of the meaning of non-locality is made in physics and thought. It is suggested that non-local correlations may play an essential role within the nature.
Introduction
The prime mover of the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, Neils Bohr, took pains to stress the essential wholeness of quantum phenomena. As a direct result of the indivisibility of the quantum of action, each experiment or observation of the quantum domain must be taken as an unanalyzable whole. Bohr's interpretation of the quantum theory had the effect of introducing a radically new idea into science, for up to that time it had been natural to define material bodies in terms of their properties and, in particular, their locations in space. Their behavior was then described in terms of the various forces operating between them which caused them to move or change their states. But now Bohr was denying the validity of this whole approach for, at the quantum mechanical level, he argued, bodies in interaction form a single, indissoluble whole.
More recently this quantum holism has been underscored by the various experimental tests of Bell's Theorem. 1 In essence they indicate that two quantum particles--initially in interaction but now well separated in space must be represented by a single inseparable state. This notion of this inherent inseparability has led a number of authors to argue that a basic non-locality is essential to a quantum theoretical description of nature.
Is this non-locality something that can be added to conventional quantum mechanics or is a radically different approach required? Is it possible to develop a description of non-separability within a purely local theory, or does non-locality represent a complementary form of description to that of locality? Could it be that the concept of space is far richer than physics has hitherto supposed, so that it contains a whole series of properties? And would this imply that physics should move to some deeper theory in which both locality and non-locality emerge as limiting forms?
This essay is an attempt to explore, in very general terms, such a complementary description and to ask what may be meant by non-locality, not only in quantum physics, but very generally in other forms of thought and activity. Its aim is to open up the discussion of non-locality, to allow for other complementary views of space, time and causality, and to call for a formal development of new concepts. For, it is suggested, non-locality may indeed play a significant role in mind and nature.
Locality
For well over two hundred years locality has been fundamental to our way of looking at the physical world. Indeed it is so deeply ingrained in scientific thinking that a non-local form of interaction appears, in Einstein's words, as "spooky". 2
A local description gives central position to the concepts of location and separation in space. Bodies are defined in terms of their spatial position and the trajectories they make. In turn, this description is founded upon the idea of a continuous manifold--a coordinate grid created out of dimensionless space (or space-time) points. Moreover, this manifold is supposed to exist prior to bodies and fields. Indeed it has an important ontological significance for, since the time of Clifford and Einstein there have been theoretical attempts to build fields and matter out of its geometry. A continuous space-time therefore becomes the ground out of which the entire physical world is to be built.
To reject locality would therefore be to throw away the full potential of this underlying manifold. In addition, physicists would be forced to abandon a whole range of rich and powerful mathematics. This latter action would, in itself, involve a major revolution in science. But the idea of locality goes even deeper for it pervades the whole of physics in an almost subliminal way. Indeed even the attempt to discuss non-locality runs into difficulties with the very language we speak. Terms like space, distance, location and separation have all become colored by several hundred years of thinking about space in a particular way. There does not even exist a word to describe the concept we are now exploring--except in terms of the negation of "locality". Locality has become so deeply ingrained in the thinking of physicists that it now seems impossible to abandon it. Nevertheless, in the next section I will argue that non-locality is in many ways a more natural way of looking at the world and is certainly not alien to our deepest thinking.
Despite the authority inherent in the locality of space-time, evidence is accumulating that it is an inappropriate way to describe quantum theory. Neils Bohr has called for a holistic approach to quantum phenomena, while Pauli and others felt that conventional concepts of space and time are inadequate for a quantum description. Current discussions of Bell's Theorem suggest that we may be forced to entertain complementary non-local descriptions-- although it may also be possible to develop purely local theories which forbid separability of certain quantum states.